Giant Snack Maker Mondelēz Nets 100 Million Views w/ ‘NowThisNews” Real-Time Collaboration

Already considered a leader in real-time brand content creation on a per-campaign basis, Oreo maker Mondelēz International in April announced a partnership, Blink Studios, in which it would try to habitualize the practise using editorial expertise from new-wave mobile news service NowThisNews. Now Mondelēz’s global media and consumer engagement VP B. Bonin Bough reveals progress in this […]

 
 

Turn VP: TV Wants Real-Time Ads ‘Over Its Dead Body’

CANNES, France — Many in the industry are getting excited about the prospect that advertisers could buy spots in linear TV in real-time, just as they are now doing online. But legacy industry resistance may scupper that prospect, says one exec. “The old school TV guys say, ‘That’s never happening, over my dead body’,” according to […]

 
 

MEC’s Chief Digital Officer on Technology, Data and Creativity

Technology is changing how advertisers market, but creativity still remains the name of the game, says Carl Fremont, Global Chief Digital Officer at MEC in an interview with Beet.TV. “We are in a tech boom and advancement, with more access to open-source platforms to build on top of and gain scale. But our role is less about building them […]

 
 

Ad platform Turn Expanding Brazil, Italy

CANNES – Digital advertising technology platform Turn is focused on international expansion this year, having just opened an office in Sao Paulo Brazil, and planning to open another in Milan later this summer, says Bill Demas, CEO in this interview with Beet.TV. Turn’s growth comes from the heightened interested in real-time marketing. Its technology offers […]